Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1986 book, The Hellbound Heart
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The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker, 1986
movie vs book
Tony Randel, 1988

In the past, British military officer Elliot Spencer is transformed into the Cenobite Pinhead after opening the Lament Configuration. Interviewed by Doctor Channard, and his assistant Kyle MacRae, she tells her account of the events, and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton, died upon.


Book of Blood. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1984 book, The Book of Blood
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The Book of Blood
Clive Barker, 1984
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John Harrison, 2009

A hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. The stranger is Wyburd, who has been stalking the young man, Simon. Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where Simon passes out and awakens strapped to a table. Wyburd offers him a choice: a slow death, or a quick and clean death by telling the story of the Book of Blood, series of scars and inscriptions carved on Simon from head to toe.


Book of Blood. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1985 book, On Jerusalem Street (A Postscript)
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On Jerusalem Street (A Postscript)
Clive Barker, 1985
movie vs book
John Harrison, 2009

A hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. The stranger is Wyburd, who has been stalking the young man, Simon. Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where Simon passes out and awakens strapped to a table. Wyburd offers him a choice: a slow death, or a quick and clean death by telling the story of the Book of Blood, series of scars and inscriptions carved on Simon from head to toe.